One of my favorite commercials is the one for Lactaid. You know, the one where the purported farmer explains that Lactaid comes from real cows. And, since folks try to claim it’s not real milk, those things around him have to be dogs…
There are two firms (at least) planning to invade our supermarkets with lab grown meat.
That’s different from the folks who are creating hamburgers and the like from vegetable sources. These firms are starting from animal stem cells, growing them in the lab with a synthetic bovine fetal serum, and wait until the tissue is formed. (One firm is using real bovine fetal serum- but the synthetic version has some special advantages- at least for Jewish folks.)
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